10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WASPISHNESS»
Discover the use of
waspishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
waspishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Careless at Work: Selected Canadian historical studies
Though this insect analogy is a partial myth, it does still suggest a sense of
WASPishness quite widely perceived by those outside the British-Canadian ethic
segment; and it does express the fact that this significant group, for a long time
the ...
2
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
Whatmightthecomponentsoffactsbe?Perhapstheywillincludeobjects,such as
tables and chairs; we could count people as objects for this purpose too. Perhaps
they will include qualities or properties, like whiteness or waspishness. If we
accept ...
3
The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, Updated Edition: With a ...
Like wasps, these men act in swarms; they are vicious, 'singularly quick to anger
and ill-tempered when provoked'.133 Waspishness is the very opposite of
softness, gentleness, effeminacy and compassion. The Wasps champion the
same ...
4
Socrates and Aristophanes
Waspishness is best used and of course indispensable in war. Waspishness in
judging is a perhaps inevitable excrescence of waspishness properly used; for it
is hard to bring it about that the qualities needed by the city to hold its own
against ...
5
Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from ...
Waspishness. in. Wasps. and. Boldness. in. Spiders. A lt h o u g h psychologists
can argue endlessly over definitions of personality, most of those definitions
contain some version of individuals showing consistent differences in how they
feel ...
6
T. S. Eliot: A Symposium
The suggestion that the latter was a kind of sophisticated primitivism brought the
reply, with a waspishness that was characteristic, that there 'was nothing primitive
about it.' (A waspishness, let us say parenthetically, that has now and then got ...
Tambimuttu, Richard March, 1965
7
A Gaelic Dictionary: In Two Parts I. Guelic and English. - ...
Waspishness, fretfulness, crossness; nimbleness. Speaclairean. See
Speuclaireaw. Speal, speala, s.f. (Ir.id.) A scythe; a mowing-hook; a short while at
any kind of work; a short fit of vigorous exertion. Thoir speal air an obair, bestow a
short ...
Robert Archibald Armstrong, 1825
TO A PERSON OF SOME TALENTS, BUT REMARKABLE FOR THE
WASPISHNESS OF HIS DISPOSITION, WHO COMPLAINED OF A BROTHER
AUTHOR. A WIT's a feather, we are told, In honey steep'd, or gall, Which aptly
touch'd by ...
9
White Trash: Race and Class in America
That Fallow is himself eventually split by his own story of McCoy joins the story
teller and his object in a way that makes WASPishness "trash" itself implicitly. “His
name [McCoy's]," Fallow forewarns us, "would be inexorably tied to mine"; and ...
Annalee Newitz, Matt Wray, 2013
But unless the hard core of this integrity is transcended by the nurturant quality of
maleness that old Moses Tully and C.W. and brother Tully, as well as Evan and
Dick and the third Tully had, the psyche or ethos of WASPishness flattens the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WASPISHNESS»
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waspishness is used in the context of the following news items.
Harper Lee's old manuscript causes brand new problems for …
No book within memory has aroused suspicions and waspishness as this one has. In the New Yorker, which once employed Lee and her flamboyant friend ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
Diarmaid Ferriter: Refreshing to hear priest fulminate against sinful …
Nor could the Irish Monthly contributor resist some sectarian waspishness: “There was a Protestant lady who also made this pilgrimage and brought her little ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Theatre review: Fat Alice, Oran Mor, Glasgow
He had promised he'd leave his wife but, as Moira (Meg Fraser) observes, with an increasing waspishness, there's always a "but". In the interests of Carr's ... «Herald Scotland, Mar 15»
CRAIG BROWN asks is ANYONE as catty as an ageing TV chef?
It was only after he died that his diaries revealed his waspishness. In them, he was remarkably rude about Churchill, and he described Lord Mountbatten as a ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»
'Vanessa and her Sister', by Priya Parmar; 'Adeline', by Norah Vincent
Vanessa placated her for fear of it, as did Leonard. Everyone around Virginia forgave her much: the waspishness that could turn into vitriol, the envy, the vanity, ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
Death in Belgravia Rosemary Hill
She became la folle de Belgravia in the popular imagination and stories of her waspishness, madness etc circulated wildly at the time – another plant by Lord ... «London Review of Books, Jan 15»
Emma rework is a complete waste of time
This is Austen-lite, with none of the waspishness, genuine social observation (what that lady would have made of Facebook does not bear thinking about) or ... «Express.co.uk, Nov 14»
Where stand-up is falling down
Those we have should follow the model of Radio Four's News Quiz, which combines waspishness, wit and women comics to produce razor-like current affairs ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
Alan Stanbrook - obituary
... and directors were always highly intelligent and informative, but Stanbrook did not shrink from an occasional waspishness where he thought it appropriate. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
POPULAR FICTION
... cameos of Noel Coward and John Gielgud for good measure. The biggest surprise is the end, though; after all the waspishness, it's a real three-hanky weepie. «Daily Mail, Jul 14»
